Washtenaw County Sheriff

by P.D. Lesko In 2021, a gunman walked into Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and murdered 11 congregants, wounding six others. In 2023, a Michigan man was arrested by the FBI for plotting to gun down members of East Lansing's…

by P.D. Lesko Ken Magee, candidate for County Sheriff, is clean, squeaky clean. In his more than 30-year career as a front line police officer, DEA agent and Chief of Police at the University of Michigan, Magee has never been…

by Ken Magee Note: Ken Magee is a candidate in a three-way race to serve as the next Washtenaw County Sheriff. Slide courtesy of Derrick Jackson, 2024 Community Violence Intervention Summit. Does “just one life” matter to…

Updated 6/10/24 with a comment from Alyshia Dyer. by P.D. Lesko Captial-One-v.-DyerDownload On June 9, The Ann Arbor Independent received an anonymous email with a court filing attached. The same court filing was also sent to…

Updated on May 30, 2024 with comments from Duane Breijak, Executive Dir. at the National Association of Social Workers, Michigan Chapter, Derrick Jackson and Tanya Hilgendorf, former Executive Dir. at Ozone House when Jackson worked there.…

By P.D. Lesko Washtenaw County Sheriff's Deputy D'Angelo McWilliams. If Washtenaw County Sheriff's Deputy and alleged rapist D'Angelo McWilliams were a vegetable, he'd be a potato--a very, very hot potato. McWilliams's hiring and…

by P.D. Lesko On March 25, 2024, The Ann Arbor Independent submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the County Sheriff's Dept. to obtain a copy of the background check done on Sheriff's Deputy D'Angelo Ladonn McWilliams prior…

by P.D. Lesko Around 80 people crowded into the Washtenaw County Learning Resource Center on Washtenaw Ave., near the County Jail, on Nov. 15 from 6-8 p.m. to hear Sheriff candidates Alyshia Dyer, Derrick Jackson and Ken Magee answer…

by Monica Ross-Williams For decades, Washtenaw County and its government were models for what good governance could look like.On Tuesday, August 15, 2023 that changed, when four Washtenaw County Commissioners, Annie Somerville …

Ypsi Police Chief Kirk L. Moore, in a secret memo to his staff provided to The Ann Arbor Independent, says the YPD is undermanned and can't investigate capital crimes such as murder and attempted murder. In the memo, he announces he has…